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exigences

NOUN

difficulty; demand

Synonyms

WEAK

acuteness constraint contingency crisis criticalness crossroad demandingness dilemma distress duress emergency extremity fix hardship imperativeness jam juncture necessity need needfulness pass pickle pinch plight predicament pressingness pressure quandary requirement scrape stress turning point urgency vicissitude want wont zero hour

Antonyms

WEAK

ease easiness ordinariness

NOUN

demand

Synonyms

WEAK

demands exigencies exigency necessity need needs requirement requirements want

NOUN

crisis

Synonyms

WEAK

circumstance climacteric crossroad difficulty dilemma emergency exigency fix hardship head juncture pickle pinch predicament quandary turning point urgency zero hour

Example Sentences

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This may be fully allowed, yet it does not meet the exigences of the case.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

It therefore remained for Gage to do the shouting, which duty he performed with a vigour out of proportion to the apparent exigences of the case.

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William

Every people, every large community is able to furniſh a revenue adequate to the exigences of government.

From The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)

This exclusive maintenance, and yet extension of the Creed, according to the exigences of the times, is instanced in other Fathers.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal

I entreat you will never suffer Mr. Wood to be a judge of your exigences.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Swift, Jonathan